Paulo Younse is a Staff Engineer for the Robotic Hardware Systems Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA. His experience resides in mechanical design, machine vision, hopping robots, limbed robots, and subsurface drilling. Current projects include Cliffbot, a cooperative robotic system used to explore steep terrain, sample acquisition and caching research for Mars Sample Return, and the powder acquisition drill system for Mars Science Laboratory. Previous experience includes work on unmanned underwater vehicles at the Boeing Company and visual navigation and control for agricultural robots at the University of Florida. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, CA) and an ME in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL).